How far you can run might be down to brain not brawn, study finds - Brain cells found to help body recover faster after exercise ...

If there were a way to improve your running performance without putting more stress on your body, would you use it? This isn’t a trick—we aren’t talking about illegal substances. Instead, we’re ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wouldn’t it be great if we could slow the aging process? Well, new research shows there may be a way to do so with a specific ...

As temperatures dip below freezing, two areas of our bodies help to regulate our response, or the response of a winter ...

The more we exercise our endurance, the fitter we become—and so do our muscles. They adapt to the load and are able to perform better for a longer period of time. A research team at the University of ...

Years of Winter Olympics training reshape athletes’ brains and bodies, helping them manage cold stress, fatigue, and ...

After 50, endurance is no longer about speed or intensity, but about how long your body can sustain effort with control, ...

One of my favorite quadrennial rituals is the serve-and-volley between articles arguing that progress in Olympic sports has ground to a halt and those—like the one I wrote in June—wondering how the ...

Given the long distance of these competitions, ultra-endurance athletes have to think about food they can carry. There are ...

Consider two runners who, in lab testing, have identical values for VO2 max, running economy, and lactate threshold. These are the three quantities in the “standard model” of endurance performance; ...

Even the best athletes in the endurance and strength worlds tend to excel in one area and perform poorly in the other. The tactical athlete must have a solid foundation in both, but does not need to ...